Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1459, a Parus (11F627) military navigation and store-and-forward communications satellite for the Soviet Tsiklon-B naval navigation system in low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 280th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 6 May 1983, 03:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1983-042
- Launches in 1983
- 43rd of 129
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